Zhao, L.; Jin, T.; Qin, L.; Li, Z. Chinese Agriculture for “Green and Grain” Productivity Growth: Evidence from Jiangsu Province. Sustainability2023, 15, 16780.
Zhao, L.; Jin, T.; Qin, L.; Li, Z. Chinese Agriculture for “Green and Grain” Productivity Growth: Evidence from Jiangsu Province. Sustainability 2023, 15, 16780.
Zhao, L.; Jin, T.; Qin, L.; Li, Z. Chinese Agriculture for “Green and Grain” Productivity Growth: Evidence from Jiangsu Province. Sustainability2023, 15, 16780.
Zhao, L.; Jin, T.; Qin, L.; Li, Z. Chinese Agriculture for “Green and Grain” Productivity Growth: Evidence from Jiangsu Province. Sustainability 2023, 15, 16780.
Abstract
China is striving to leverage the power of science and technology to green its agriculture while increasing grain productivity. In this context, this study presents the green growth rate of agriculture from the DEA-based Green Total Factor Productivity (GTFP) indicator, together with the growth rate of grain yields, and applies it to the case of Jiangsu, a major grain-producing province with a well-developed economy. It is found that Jiangsu's agriculture has generally performed well in the implementation of the two major national strategies of green development and grain security, especially in the northern Jiangsu, which is a major grain-producing area. In contrast, the phased fluctuations of green growth in agriculture in Southern Jiangsu are more pronounced, with even negative green growth occurring during the green agriculture movement. Much of the volatility in agricultural green growth at the provincial, subregional, municipal level comes from the effects of the movement of the green technology frontier led by best practitioners. Accordingly, the possibility of improving the weak state of the catch-up effect on green growth is explored from the perspective of the Chinese government-led agricultural science and innovation system; it also traces the green agricultural initiatives in the main grain-marketing areas that have failed to deliver the expected green growth, and recommends a review of such policies and refinement of the GTFP Index tool for assessing sustainable green growth.
Keywords
green development in agriculture; grain security; frontier movement effect; catch-up effect; Chinese government-led agricultural science and innovation system; Malmquist-Luenberger Productivity Index
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Sustainable Science and Technology
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